Nico Karge is an art historian and has been a research assistant at the Pommersches Landesmuseum in Greifswald since 2025. From 2021 to 2024, he was a research assistant and fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Modell Romantik” at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Previously, he worked as artistic and administrative director at the Kunstverein Dresden, among other positions. He studied art history at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Technical University of Dresden. As part of his dissertation project, he is researching depictions of love in German Romantic painting.